翻刻
安永之末鶏鳴の頃西に当て火の如成星見
ゆる天明の始の頃宵の明生より余程後れて
金銀の色成光り甚き星出し事有天明二
年寅の春より浅間山折々焼出し五月の頃より
たび〳〵強く七月六日夕方より大焼にて同八日の
夜より夥布鳴動し天地も崩る如く其響
き四国九州まて震動し上野石砂ふり吾
妻郡馬大変にて火（日）を歴（へ）て漸々焼静れり
此年夏よりして冷敷強く耕作一切にみのらず
信州上野両国大 飢饉（キキン）にて白米壱升代
弐百文の余に付こぬか壱升三十弐文又は
五拾銅くらひに売買籾種壱表百廿四文
百五十文蕪の干葉百文に付弐れん抔と言へる
程の飢渇（ケカチ）＃1ハ八十才百年の老人迚も未聞伝
と云る程に葛の根 薇蕨（ワラヒ）の根を掘て
食事となし木の葉草の葉を摘て糧と
現代語訳
安永の末、鶏の鳴く頃（丑の刻）、西の方に火のような星が見えた。天明の初めの頃には、宵の明星よりもかなり遅れて、金銀の色をした光の甚だ強い星が現れたことがあった。天明二年（寅年）の春より、浅間山がときおり噴き出し、五月の頃よりたびたび激しく噴火し、七月六日の夕方より大噴火となって、同八日の夜よりおびただしく鳴動し、天地も崩れるかのようにその響きは四国・九州まで震動し、上野（こうずけ）では石や砂が降り、吾妻郡・群馬は大変な被害を受け、日を経てようやく噴火は静まった。
この年の夏より寒さが厳しく、耕作は一切実らず、信州・上野（こうずけ）の両国は大飢饉となり、白米一升の値段が二百文余りに達し、糠（ぬか）一升が三十二文、または五十銅ほどで売買され、籾種一俵が百二十四文ないし百五十文、蕪の干し葉は百文に対して二連ほどと言われるほどの飢えに苦しみ、八十歳・百歳の老人でさえも未だかつて聞いたことがないと言うほどであった。葛の根や薇・蕨の根を掘って食事とし、木の葉・草の葉を摘んで糧と
英語訳
Toward the end of the An'ei era, around the time of the cock's crow (approximately 2 a.m.), a star resembling fire was seen in the west. Around the beginning of the Tenmei era, considerably later than the evening star, a star of gold-and-silver hue appeared, shining with extraordinary brilliance. From the spring of the second year of Tenmei (the year of the Tiger), Mount Asama began erupting intermittently; from around the fifth month the eruptions grew repeatedly more violent; and from the evening of the sixth day of the seventh month a great eruption occurred, so that from the night of the eighth day onward there was tremendous rumbling, as if Heaven and Earth were collapsing. The reverberations shook as far as Shikoku and Kyushu; in Kōzuke Province, stones and sand rained down; Agatsuma District and Gunma suffered enormous devastation; and only after many days did the eruption gradually subside.
From that summer onward the cold was severe, and the harvest failed entirely. In both Shinshū (Shinano Province) and Kōzuke Province there was a great famine: the price of white rice per shō rose to over two hundred mon; rice bran per shō sold for thirty-two mon or around fifty copper coins; seed rice per bale fetched one hundred twenty-four to one hundred fifty mon; and dried turnip leaves sold for a mere two strings per one hundred mon — such was the degree of starvation that even men of eighty or a hundred years of age said they had never heard of its like. People dug up the roots of kudzu, bracken fern, and royal fern to make their meals, and gathered tree leaves and grass leaves as sustenance —